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More than 5000 entries on the history, culture and life of Britain (published in 1993 by Macmillan, now out of print)
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John Aubrey
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(1626–97) English biographer, known in his own time chiefly as an antiquary; he was the first to draw attention to *Avebury and the Aubrey holes at *Stonehenge were noted by him (he was also the first to put forward the influential but false theory that Stonehenge was connected with the *Druids). His fame today derives not so much from ancient stones as from the racy anecdotal style in which he recorded information and gossip about the eminent men of his own and recent times. His manuscript, deposited by him in 1693 in the Ashmolean Museum, was not published until the 19C; his book was then given its present title, *Brief Lives.
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